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Strategii ale emfatizării în discursul televizual românesc actual
Emphasis Strategies in Today’s Romanian Television Discourse

Author(s): Luminița Hoarță Cărăușu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: strategies of emphasis; cleft phrases; pseudo-cleft constructions;

Summary/Abstract: Our study entails a detailed analysis of the pragmatic communicative strategies used to obtain the effect of emphasis at the lexico-syntactic levels in spoken Romanian language. The present study focuses on the standard form of Romanian used in broadcast television shows covering arts and culture. The corpus of our study contains four examples of video-mediated interaction (communication). All four examples are included in the volume Corpus de limbă română vorbită actuală nedialectală [Corpus of standard spoken Romanian language], coord. Luminita Hoarță Cărăușu, Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iași, p.241-261 [= CRVAN 2013].

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 253-264
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian